The user interface has been simplified in Dreamweaver
CC and later. As a result, you may not find some of the options
described in this article in Dreamweaver CC and later. For more
information, see this article.

Storing login information about
users

A
registration page requires a database table to store the login information entered
by users.

Make sure your database table contains
a user name and a password column. If you want logged‑in users to
have different access privileges, include an access privilege column.

If you want to set a common password for all users of
the site, configure your database application (Microsoft Access,
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and so on) to enter the password in
each new user record by default. In most database applications,
you can set a column to a default value each time a new record is created.
Set the default value to the password.

You can also use the database table to store other useful
information about the user.

The next step in creating a registration page is to add
an HTML form to the registration page to let users choose a user
name and password (if applicable).

Add an HTML form for selecting
a user name and password

You add an HTML form to the registration
page to let users select a user name and password (if applicable).

Create a page (File > New >
Blank Page) and lay out your registration page using the Dreamweaver design tools.

Add an HTML form by placing the insertion point where
you want the form to appear and selecting Form from the Insert menu.

An empty form is created on the page. You may have to enable
Invisible Elements (View > Visual Aids >
Invisible Elements) to see the form’s boundaries, which are represented
by thin red lines.

Name the HTML form by clicking the <form> tag
at the bottom of the Document window to select the form, opening
the Property inspector (Window > Properties), and entering
a name in the Form Name box.

You don’t have to specify an action or method attribute
for the form to tell it where and how to send the record data when
the user clicks the Submit button. The Insert Record server behavior
sets these attributes for you.

Add text fields (Insert > Form >
Text Field) to let the user enter a user name and password.

The form can also have more form objects to record other
personal data.

You should add labels (either as text or images)
beside each form object to tell users what they are. You should
also line up the form objects by placing them inside an HTML table.
For more information on form objects, see Creating
web forms.

Add a Submit button to the form (Insert >
Form > Button).

You can change the label of the Submit button by selecting
the button, opening the Property inspector (Window >
Properties), and entering a new value in the Value box.

The
next step in creating a registration page is to add the Insert Record
server behavior to insert records in the table of users in the database.

Add a server behavior to ensure
a unique user name

You
can add a server behavior to a user registration page that verifies
that the user name is unique before adding that user to your database
of registered users.

When the user clicks the Submit button
on the registration page, the server behavior compares the user
name entered by the user against the user names stored in a database
table of registered users. If no matching user name is found in
the database table, the server behavior carries out the insert record
operation normally. If a matching user name is found, the server
behavior cancels the insert record operation and opens a new page
(usually a page alerting the user that the user name is already
taken).